Clarion 1964-11-25 Vol 40 No 10

Under construction is the major backdrop for the Festival of
Christmas concert to be presented Dec. 4-6 in the fieldhouse. The
choral program revolves around the theme "The Word Was Made Flesh"
as portrayed in the backdrop designed by Gene Johnson and the Art
Department.
Vol XL—No. 10 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, December 25, 1964
Senate Committee Explores
Communication with Negroes
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Missionary curios on display attracted the attention of seminar-ians
Bruce Hansen of New York and Varghese Soloman of Kuola, India.
Similar displays in the Student Lounge reminded students that Missions
Week was in progress. Missions Week speakers emphasized that mis-sions
is a "Vocation with a Vision."
Bethel's 8th annual Christmas Festival of Arts
will be held in the fieldhouse, Dec. 4-6. The Dec.
4 and 5 performances will begin at 8 p.m. The
Dec. 6 performance will begin at 3 p.m.
The festival theme will be "The Word was made
flesh . . ." It is divided into three sections.
The first section is "Glorious Creation." A-gainst
the mural backdrop showing the creation,
the choir will sing "The Creation," "Great and
Marvelous are Thy Works" and "Gloria."
"Glorious Incarnation," the second part portrays
the birth of Christ. The feature selections will be
"Glory to God in the Highest," "The Angels Song"
and "Christus Natus Est!" The choir will sing "Pas-toral"
from Handel's "Messiah" during the offering.
Finally there will be the presentation of the
section entitled "Glorious Consummation." Highlight-
Annual Festival Presents
`Word Was Made Flesh'
ing this part will be "The Shepherd Heard an An-gel,"
"Sing, 0 Ye Heavens" and "Glory to God."
After this section is over there will be a recessional
of the choir singing, "Angels We have Heard on
High," a French carol.
The musical part of this festival presentation
is a joint effort of the Women's Choir, the Men's
Choir, the College Choir and a combination of
these three called the Festival Choir. The orches-tra
and a brass choir will play.
The drama department provides the narration of
the theme. This year the narrators are Dale Rott,
Barbara Glenn and Robert Drake.
By a narrow margin the Student
Senate voted to investigate the
possibility of communicating and
exchanging students with a Negro
college. Bill Carlson, first vice-president,
who is in charge of the
investigation will be reporting on
the project to the Senate after
Thanksgiving.
As conceived by Carlson, the
project would begin with corres-pondence
between student govern-ments
about some common prob-lems
of student government. Grow-ing
from this correspondence,
weekend or vacation exchange
visits could be made by student
senators from both schools. Even-tually
the student governments
might sponsor semester student
exchange programs.
"The whole idea is based on the
premise that students at Bethel
have not had much contact with
the racial problem at home and
they do not come in contact with
it here at Bethel where we have
no American Negroes and seem to
Senate Plans
Rules Forum
Senate approved a motion to
hold an open forum on women's
dormitory rules Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
following the regular Senate meet-ing
in room 106 of the college
building.
Bob Beckstrom, president of the
Senate, said, "I cannot over-em-phasize
that the primary function
of the forum is information. Since
the issue of dorm rules has gone
outside the dormitories, the Sen-ate
has stepped in to determine
exactly what the issue is.
"The means of obtaining and
communicating the information
Monday night will be: 1) sympos-ium
and 2) open discussion."
Since the student missions pro-ject
was first initiated, Faith State-ments
of Intent have gradually
totaled slightly less than $11,000
as of Nov. 18. Bethel students have
responded by turning in over 350
and work opportunities. Carleton
currently has 11 such Negroes on
its campus. The student body gives
financial assistance to two, the ad-ministration,
to four and the Rocke-feller
Foundation, to five.
A professor from a Negro girl's
college in Atlanta, Ga. which ex-changes
students with several
Northern schools, told Carlson that
these exchanges have worked well.
Students from both North and
South appear to be benefiting from
this personal contact.
"Eventually, I would like to see
a well qualified Negro professor
at Bethel, but this is a project for
the future. Now we in the Senate
are concerned about a small be-ginning,
specifically, communica-tion
with a Negro college and the
Negro community of the Twin City
area."
Setting the
mural depicting
pledges doubling the first day fig-ures.
Various Bethel organizations and
several classes are also consider-ing
plans such as "slave days" for
furthering this project.
Jim Keim, Religious Committee
co-ordinator estimates a final total
of nearly $15,000. He states, "It's
slow, but encouraging." Funds be-yond
the $3,000 for the summer
student missionary project will be
used for the construction of a Sem-inary
classroom on the new Bethel
campus.
Notices about the summer pro-ject
have been sent to all students.
Those interested in working with
home and foreign missions this
summer are asked to reply immed-iately
so that work may proceed
on the selection of candidates. Ap-plication
forms must be in by Jan.
8. The final selections will be an-nounced
before semester break.
Students unable to attend the
chapel hour are asked to submit
their statements of Intent and of-fering
either through the inter-campus
mail, or the Public Af-fairs
office.
Bethel's football and cross coun-try
teams were honored yesterday
for their outstanding competitive
COEVAL Asks
For Creativity
Deadline for contributions to
COEVAL for the spring, 1965 pub-lication
is Feb. 15. Some of the
categories are prose (short story,
essay), short drama, poetry, sculp-ture,
painting, drawing, design,
photography and music.
For new students on campus,
COEVAL is the student published
and produced art and literature
magazine of Bethel College. Only
original work by Bethel students
is considered. Contributions are
already coming in.
Early entry is advised to allow
a more careful review by staff
members. Submit your work to
Jan Bowman (PO 535), Jim Carroll
(PO 432) or Jud Nelson (Art De-partment).
This year COEVAL is sponsor-ing
supplementary programs in co-operation
with Cultural Council,
such as the "Speak-easys" and a
convocation with the renowned
poet and critic Allen Tate, who
will be at Bethel next April.
Tentative plans for the next
"Speak-easy" include performance
of original student composition in
the areas of music and literature.
atmosphere for this program is a
each section of the theme. The first
part shows the creation of man.
The second part presents Christ's
birth, death and resurrection. The
final portion illustrates Christ's
glory in ascension power. The mur-al
will span the entire length of
the stage. Gene Johnson and the
art classes created the visual pan-orama
of the Festival theme.
Cabin Decision
Set for Monday
Final action on the Captain's
Cabin constitution will take place
at the next Senate meeting. The
Senate's Dec. 7 meeting in the col-lege
auditorium at 7 p.m. is open
to all students.
Last Monday night the Senate
opened discussion on the newly
revised constitution. Dave Mbiti,
chartering committee chairman,
presented the constitution. Then
J. David Patterson was called upon
to answer questions.
Inquiries centered around the
governing body of the Cabin.
Many senators and interested
students took opposing stands on
the issues. A motion to have an
immediate vote on the motion was
turned down 8-10. Senate rules
call for a vote on a motion one
week after it is introduced.
records of the 1964 season in a
special Seminary chapel, planned
by Seminary students.
Seminary Senate President Bruce
Jones welcomed the team mem-bers
and Dean Gordon Johnson
spoke in recognition of their ach-ievements.
Paul Evans, pastor at Forest
City, Iowa, and former Bethel
football player and coach gave the
address, "A Mandate for Men."
Evans challenged the young men
to consider the type of vocation
they are pursuing in the light of
how it will enable them "to best
fulfill the mandate Christ has left
you," that of proclaiming the mes-sage
of Christ. He further empha-sized
as an athlete, the fact that
one has a captive audience wait-ing
to listen to him, stating that
"By nature of what you are, and
what you have accomplished,
young people and adults will give
you their attention."
As a pastor, Evans challenged
each one to consider full-time
Christian service as a means where-by
they may proclaim Christ.
Next CLARION
December 9
It's Thanksgiving
Vacation
be making no appeal to Negroes,"
states Carlson.
"As the recent civil rights con-vocation
series pointed out, the ra-cial
problem is coming to a crisis
and we at Bethel are removed
from personal contact with it. This
project is aimed toward filling the
gap between what Bethel students
know about racial differences and
how they act with people of dif-ferent
races.
"Admittedly, the project may
seem to be biased for the Negro,
but its purpose is to fill an appar-ent
gap in Bethel's education, not
to favor Negroes over others,"
Carlson explained.
He also reports that a look at
similar programs at other colleges
is encouraging. In this vicinity
Macalester and Carleton colleges
have actively encouraged Negro
enrollment through scholarships
Project's Faith Pledges
Total Less Than $11,000
Seminary Challenges
Team; Praises Record
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the CLARION Wednesday, November 25, 1964
Kennedy's Words Recall
Blessings of Heritage
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord."
More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims, after a year
of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a spe-cial
day upon which to give thanks to God for their. preserva-tion
and for the good harvest from the virgin soil upon which
they had labored. Grave and unknown dangers remained.
Yet by their faith and by their toil they had survived the
rigors of the rash New England winter. Hence they paused
iu their labors to give thanks for the blessings that had been
bestowed upon them by Divine Providence.
This year, as the harvest draws near its close and the
year approaches its end, awesome perils again remain to be
faced. Yet we have, as in the past, ample reason to be thank-ful
for the abundance of our blessings. We are grateful for
the blessings of faith and health and strength and for the
imperishable spiritual gifts of love and hope.
We give thanks, too, for our freedom as a nation; for
the strength of our arms and the faith of our friends, for
the beliefs and confidence we share; for our determination
to stand firmly for what we believe to be right and to resist
mightily what we believe to be base; and for the heritage
of liberty bequeathed by our ancestors which we are privi-leged
to preserve for our children and our children's children.
I urge all citizens to make this Thanksgiving not merely
a holiday from their labors, but rather a day of contempla-tion.
I ask the head of each family to recount to his children
the story of the first New England Thanksgiving, thus to
impress upon future generations the heritage of this nation
born in toil, in danger, in purpose, and in the conviction that
right and justice and freedom can through man's efforts
persevere and come to fruition with the blessing of God.
Let us observe this day with reverence and with prayer
that will rekindle in us the will and show us the way not
only to preserve our blessings, but also to extend them to
the four corners of the earth. Let us by our example, as
well as by our material aid, assist all peoples of all nations
who are striving to achieve a better life in freedom.
John F. Kennnedy
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Student Cites Problem Areas
In Ministry to Modern World
by Dave Buck
My intention is not to write a sarcastic, cynical
diatribe against the church, but to present my opin-ion
as to how the church has failed the Christian.
What is wrong with the church depends also on what
the individual himself wants from the church.
Therefore, I expect some to disagree with my
opinion. The church to be considered in this dis-cussion
is the local church in our home towns that
each of us belongs to.
I feel that the church does not really deal
with the individual as a human being apart from
the salvation experience. Here are my particular
grievances against the church.
First, the church's legalistic framework often
imposes guilt feelings on the individual for certain
acts or thoughts that aren't really sin. Closely re-lated
to this criticism is the fact that the church
fails to deal with the practical problems of life. For
example, one of the most critical problems the
adolescent faces is making a satisfactory adjustment
to sex.
The adjustment is even harder for the Chris-tian
young person to make because of the moral
implications involved. Although the church does not
need to bear the whole responsibility of sex educa-tion,
must it treat the subject of sex as if to say
the word itself is sin?
Next, the church often fails to relate poten-tially
useful materials such as literature and movies
to Christianity in a way that would aid the Chris-tian
to gain a deeper understanding of life's mean-ing.
Usually the church has placed a spoken or un-spoken
taboo on these two medias unless they are
so-called Christian ventures. But in order to be
relevant to the contemporary world, the church must
face Salinger, Steinbeck, Faulkner and Sarte realis-tically
rather than immaturely condemning their
thinking because these men happen to use profanity
in their writings.
The church also must not reject movies such as
"La Dolce Vita" or "Days of Wine and Roses" be-cause
they emphasize immorality. The church should
begin to realize that if approached maturely, these
two medias could do much to help the Christian
face life realistically.
Then, does the church really provide any
source of solace for the individual's doubts and
anxieties? The church falsely believes that be-cause
a person is a Christian he will turn to
Christ automatically to solve his problems. They
seem to forget that human's often don't want to.
Even though we are saved, we still like to be
our own God. This causes conflict and leads to neu-rotic
tendencies in many who think they are ex-pected
to live one way and yet cannot seem to
live this way. They wonder why they fail so often
and sometimes they end in a nervous breakdown
or in rebellion against Christianity.
This leads to the final criticism which is that
the church stifles individuality when it indicates that
it is sinful for a Christian to doubt his faith. Thus
the individual faces the conflict of conforming to
something he is not really sure
about or of rejecting it entirely
because his doubts overwhelm him.
The church must encourage the
Christian to think and to be will-ing
to face perplexing problems
squarely instead of suppressing
them because he fears that his
doubts are abnormal. If the church
doesn't begin to do this, there won't
be many Christians who could be
known as the "salt of the earth."
Alas, we will remain phonies.
Multitudes of cliches in our tes-timonies,
prayers and sermons
would seem to indicate that the
modern church is static. It has lost
the early church's dynamic and
has never really been revelant to
modern man's problems. What can
we do to change it, or is it too
late?
To me there is only one way the
situation can be changed. This is
through the individual efforts of
each pastor and each member of
the church to re-evaluate his faith
and, if necessary, revamp it. But
this costs something in self disci-pline.
The big question remains,
"Do we really want to pay this
price?"
Viet Nam .
Top American officials in South
Viet Nam strongly favor a delib-erate
widening of the guerilla war,
starting with U.S. air strikes a-gainst
Communist infiltrating
routes through Laos and military
bases in North Viet Nam.
Thailand .. .
Thailand began taking her first
unsteady steps toward restoration
of parliamentary democracy. The
government has been a military
dictatorship since Marshall Sarit
Thanarat seized power six years
ago. A liberalizing of the govern-ment
has come since his death last
year.
Laos .. .
Another U.S. military plane has
been shot down in Laos, the Pen-tagon
reported. The injured pilot
of the reconnaissance jet shot down
by ground fire in south central
Laos was rescued.
Cuba . . .
Cuban exiles said Saturday they
tried to drop a bomb on Fidel
Castro at a . Havana baseball stad-ium
Friday night in an air raid
staged in memory of John F. Ken-nedy.
Cuban anti-aircraft fire drove
them off long before they reached
the stadium.
Common Market . . .
Trade experts of the European
Common Market have drawn up a
final list of industrial exemptions
for the Kennedy Round of tariff
talks with the United States in
Geneva. The list includes 81% of
its members' industrial imports.
Nato . . .
The North Atlantic Treaty Or-ganization,
fifteen and a half years
old and suffering from growing
pains, may now be failing as a re-sult
of its own success. The fifteen
members of the alliance now seem
to lack an urgent unifying chal-lenge
from the outside. Economic
recovery in Europe has also led to
re-assertions of the ancient prides
and peeves of the continental na-tions.
GOP Showdown
Mr. Dean Burch said that he
would fight back if anyone tries
to oust him as head of the GOP
National Committee. Others, in-cluding
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller,
former ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge and Sen. Jacob K. Javits
made clear they will use any in-fluence
they can to force a change
of leadership.
The Committee of 68 .. .
Former Gov. Elmer L. Andersen
of Minnesota emerged Saturday as
the leading spokesman for a newly
organized group of moderates
known as The Committee of 68
interested in revitalizing the na-tional
Republican party.
Letters to the Editor:
Dear Editor:
I was shocked by the action tak-en
in response to a letter written
in the Nov. 11 CLARION by a Miss
Wells. I had assumed that even on
Bethel's campus the basic rights
of freedom of the press and free-dom
of speech would be upheld.
Yet after this girl had enough
courage to speak out in a mature-ly,
logically written letter, she was
immediately quieted and insulted.
First let me say a few words
about the reactionary letters an-swering
Miss Wells. Miss Thomp-son
said she would "welcome con-structive
criticism, not rebellion."
Miss Wells made a point of being
polite and of offering an alternate
system. Miss Thompson also said,
"real maturity is demonstrated by
the ability to follow set rules."
This is hogwash.
Maturity includes the qualities
of making slow, careful deci-sions
and taking responsible ac-tion.
What choice is left to a
person who has all the rules set
up for him? Maturity is demon-strated
by the ability to make
the right choices, not to just
follow set rules.
Miss Nelson, after insulting
those who had written letters, sug-gested
"that all the residents of
all the dormitories make their
Christian witness on campus a mat-ter
of prayerful concern." Fine.
But, am I staying quietly in my
room after 11 because of my
Christian witness or because of
the rules? Do I get a chance to
show my Christianity?
When I have a choice concerning
action I could take, then I can be
a witness. If there are no alterna-tives,
I'm not building Christian
character for life, I'm repressing
my urges for a few years of col-lege
life.
Though I have tried to show
the fallacies in the reactions a-gainst
Miss Wells' letter, I do
not make this my main point.
Maturity
Be she right or wrong, is Miss
Wells justified in writing a let-ter
to the editor or not?
Should she be insulted, called
before Miss Nelson and have a
letter sent home to her parents
because she wrote a letter to the
editor? Not a rebellious, imma-ture
letter, but (re-read it please)
a reasonable, constructive plea for
a reconsideration of the rules. If
this is rebellion, then I'm for it.
Sincerely,
Michael Allen Rynkiewich
Defends Cabin
Dear Editor:
Much has been written as well
as spoken about the Captain's
Cabin—the need, the purposes, the
organization, the appeal and the
ultimate result. It is not my pur-pose
to debate any of the latter,
except the first and the last, need
cont'd. on page 3
Tita Itiee4 . .
Wednesday, November 25
Last day to drop a course.
Thanksgiving vacation begins. 5 p.m.
Wednesday - Sunday,
November 25 -29
Thanksgiving vacation.
Saturday, November 24
Basketball, LaCrosse. Fieldhouse. 8
Monday, November 30
Classes resume. 8 a.m.
Schubert club. St. Paul aud. 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 1
Basketball. Luther. Fieldhouse. 8 p.m.
Friday - Saturday, December 4 -5
Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse.• 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 6
Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse. 3 p.m.
Monday, December 7
Senate. College aud. 7 p.m.
Tuesday, December 8
Senate forum. College aud. 9 p.m.
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Rynkiewich Redefines
Vern Lewis
Dave Mbiti
Bill Carlson
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The introduction of the Cap-tain's
Cabin constitution at the
Senate meeting Monday night call-ed
forth a variety of response
from the Senate members.
Dave Mbiti, representative at
large, introduced the constitution
to the Senate. He feels that the
constitution is still plagued with
ambiguity. "Too many doubts are
raised regarding such terms as
`social identification,' membership
rates' and `fees'." In spite of these
problems, he feels that the idea
behind Captain's Cabin is sound
and deserves consideration.
Commenting on the debate
during the Senate meeting,
Mbiti stated that "the Senate,
though, is not attacking the am-biguities
of the constitution but
is concerning itself with per-sonality
clashes. Captain's Cabin
should be judged on the basis
of its stated objectives."
Vern Lewis, member at large,
stated that he is not firmly oppos-ed
to the club and has not yet
made up his mind on the matter.
Those in the Senate opposed to
Captain's Cabin are primarily op-posed
because of the conflict be-by
Stan Olsen
Last night Northrop Auditorium
was the scene of the last Minne-sota
performance by America's
most beloved singer, Marian An-derson.
Including Minneapolis in
her world farewell tour, Miss An-derson
presented works by Haydn
and Schubert, plus many Negro
spirituals for which she is espec-ially
well known.
This column is happy to offer
its thanks and congratulations to
Miss Anderson for her contribution
to music.
Leading Metropolitan opera bass
Jerome Hines will present a spe-cial
concert Saturday, Dec. 5 at
8:30 p.m. in Northrop Auditorium.
The concert, which is being pre-sented
by the University Artists
Course, is a benefit for the Coun-cil
of Religious Advisors at the
University of Minnesota. Tickets
are still available at 105 Northrop
Auditorium, Daytons and Field-
Schlicks.
Bethel's Fine Arts Department
will combine to stage the eighth
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tween the traditional stand of
Bethel and what they feel could
be a compromise, a step in another
direction. This feeling has been
stimulated mainly by rumors con-cerning
the type of entertainment
and the ambiguous constitution
does nothing to alleviate their
fears."
Referring to the apparent con-flict
of standards, Lewis com-mented
that "the second and
third paragsaphs of page 27 of
the Bethel catalogue infers that
there is to be no social separa-tion
on our campus. The pre-amble
to the constitution of Cap-tain's
Cabin states, 'We, a group
of students of Bethel College,
realizing the need for social
identification, do establish this
organization,' thus introducing a
new social concept."
Bill Carlson, first vice president,
stated that "we ought to look at
the value of the club over and a-bove
the impression that was giv-en
in the CLARION article. The
Cabin will provide a much needed
social activity on the campus."
Carlson expressed several sug-gestions
for improvement of the
constitution, commenting that it
annual Festival of Christmas in
the Fieldhouse, Dec. 4-6. The scrip-tural
theme is "The word was
made flesh . . ." A large mural
depicting each section of the theme
Creation, Incarnation and Con-summation
will form the backdrop
for musical and oral communica-tion.
Bethel students should certainly
be aware of the second year per-formance
of the Center Opera
Company. This season the company
will present two operas, the first
being Benjamin Britten's satire on
the fall of Rome, "The Rape of
Lucretcia" Nov. 28, 29 and Dec. 5
and 6. The Tyrone Guthrie Theatre
will host the Center Company in
its second production during mid-
January.
Season tickets are now at sale
at the Guthrie ticket office at spe-cial
student rates of three dollars
with student activity cards.
"can and should provide for a
check against irregularities," by
"outlining the responsibilities and
duties of members and officers."
cont'd. from page 2
and result. Last year's students
vividly remember the dress-up din-ners
and the evident lack by those
responsible for the dinners and
several of the students in attend-ance.
The originators of the Captain's
Cabin have seen the need for a
step to correct the sorry situation
surrounding dress-up dinners. They
realized the Social Committee has
only a limited budget, especially
for dress-up dinners and that all
students on the meal plan do not
enjoy going to the trouble of put-ting
on their better clothes and
better manners on occasional Fri-day
nights.
The originators have come
up with two very promising
innovations, (1) making a nominal
charge for reservations to secure
not only an enchanting mood but
also some appropriate entertain-ment,
(2) appealling only to those
students who desire to dine in a
more esthetic atmosphere and be
entertained as well.
Whatever the fate of the Cabin's
charter its answers to the "Friday
night problem" will stand unique.
Thoughtfully,
Mike Peterson
Urges Reform
Dear Editor:
Improvement is initiated by con-structively
stated opinions and
criticisms. To move forward, the
members of any society should be
encouraged to state responsible
and factual opinions, rather than
admonished for expressing views
contrary to the status quo.
Even if the dissenting opinions
are not accurate, a democratic so-ciety
encourages concise rebuttal
to present differing facts and
Wednesday, November 25, 1964
College students are a rather
diverse group. Some of us get our
kicks by watching the home team
roll over Fink College. A few of
us like to balance chemical equa-tions
in the lab. All of us are in-terested
in the chemistry behind
someone's big blue eyes.
A new expression of unity has
been formed this fall on Bethel's
campus to draw together the prob-lems
of diversity. The axiological
pre-supposition of the new Philo-sophy
Club is that the discovery of
truth is functually related to the
geographical proximity of the
seekers.
An a priori assumption bor-rowed
from the Social Sciences
is the need for an orthodox con-view
points. In this manner we
need not fear irresponsible opin-ions.
The freedom to initiate programs
exists on Bethel's campus. The
freedom to attempt to reform ex-isting
policies and rules apparent-ly
does not exist. For example, in
the recent attempt to reform in-consistent
or unnecessarily re-strictive
rules in Bodien Dorm,
several of the dissenters were call-ed
in "on the carpet" by the Stu-dent
Affairs office.
In some cases such talks are for
the purpose of better student-ad-ministration
understanding on a
friendly basis. This is good. But
some talks have been for the un-fair
purpose of reprisal concerning
dissenting opinions.
Criticisms concerning rules
should not be taken personally and
should be accepted for what they
are worth. As long as students
cannot creatively disagree with
school policies or rules at Bethel,
improvements will be slow in com-ing.
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stitution. If viewed from a philo-sophical
frame of reference, its
only justification is in its at-tempt
to prove the validity of
the concept of "reality of exist-ence"
which the members have
finally achieved.
Article II of the constitution de-fines
purposes as: 1) to achieve
freedom of philosophical thought
in the pursuit of truth, and 2) to,
critically relate philosophy to
Christianity.
The last meeting attempt-ed
to analyze the meaning of
good and evil in human exist-ence,
from both a Biblical and
Naturalistic view point. A paper
written by Dave Mbiti served as
the catalyst of the discussion.
All the meetings are held on an
informal level often beginning
with the presentation of a paper
by a member of the group, fol-lowed
by debate and discussion of
the form and content of the article,
Meeting time varies according to
scheduled events.
The club lacks the presence of
serious minded Bethel girls and
also science majors. Science maj-ors
(especially physics), who en,
joy stimulating discussions would
have much to offer the group. All
interested students, regardless of
sex and major, are invited to at-tend.
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It had to be one of the finest football banquets in Bethel history.
A taste of after-dinner dryness was present, but one still sat in awe,
in amazement. Bewilderment filled the wind, for one suddenly became
cognizant of the character, personality and integrity that athletics had
somehow instilled in the athletes.
Bethel gridders begin a nine month time out at the annual football
banquet held last Friday night. The 1964 Pioneer Conference champions
and their dates huddled at the Captain's Cove to reminisce and lay
first plans for another winning season.
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Morning Service—I 1:00 a.m.
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30 p.m.
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, Pastor
Mr. Norman McLean, Aas't. Pastor
Bus transportation at 9:15 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.
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keep improving, the crowd will
have a real winning team to cheer
this year," stated the former MIAC
wrestling champ.
The wrestlers grapple on, work-ing
for that first big meet with
Macalester. It is hot in the wrest-ling
room. Coach Gilland wiped
his forehead and proclaimed, "This
could be our big year."
The Davids of the Jesters felled
the Goliaths of the Seminary 14-0
in seven degree weather Saturday.
In a game of stout defenses, the
Jesters proved so superior that the
Seminary never penetrated beyond
their own forty yard line.
The Jester's first score came
midway in the first half when,
Dave Buck intercepted a Bob
Clouse pass and romped thirty
Wrestlers Await Macalester Meet,
Face 'Big Year' with Large Team
Page 4 the CLARION
Women Capture
Second Place
Bethel captured second place in
a seven school women's volleyball
tournament at Augsburg College
in Minneapolis last Thursday night.
The team, consisting of Barb Lind-man,
Ruth Phillips, Cindy Heath,
Jan Markell, Betty Cass, Betty Jo
Hanlin, Muriel Carlson and Cheryl
Alen, opened the six game tourna-ment
against St. Paul Bible Col-lege
and defeated them 15-3.
The second game, against North-western,
was also won by a score
of 15-3. The only loss of the even-ing
came after a well played game
against Augsburg which took first
place in the tournament. Bad serv-ing
in the early part of the game
led to the defeat by a score of 15-9.
Bethel's victory margin was nar-rowed
in a 15-11 win over St.
Catherine's. In the fifth game
Bethel rebounded to roll over Fair-view
Hospital 15-5.
Excitement reached its peak in
the final game of the evening as
the score shifted from Concordia's
to Bethel's favor. Bethel came from
behind in the last few minutes in
their best effort of the evening
to win by a score of 18-16.
Huddling beneath the gymnas-ium,
in a 90 degree over-heated
room, is the Bethel wrestling team.
They wring with sweat, losing
pounds in order to make weight
for the first meet on Dec. 2 at
Macalester.
Dean Gilland, taking time out
from his busy schedule, talked at
length concerning the team's
depth, returning lettermen and
season schedule. Coach Gilland, of
course, would like nothing better
than to defeat his old alma-mater,
Macalester. "We'll get our first
chance on Dec. 2, and we should
Wednesday, November 25, 1964
be ready," claimed the stocky
coach.
Among the returnees this year
are Doug King and Ron Harris,
the team co-captains, Leroy Nel-son,
J. David Patterson and Keith
Davis. A hearty list of 15 freshm-men,
plus several new upperclass-men,
have turned out for the team
and Coach Gilland has stated his
approval. "This is a large crop
of men and we expect to use
them."
Large crowds were present at
last year's meets, verbally shout-ing
their approval. "If our fellows
The finished product
Duane Gibson and Larry
Gause, Vince Bloom, Gene
these had been knocking
modern grid-iron warfare
championed many teams,
'hat make champions.
yards for the touchdown. Buck
passed to Tim Williams for the
extra point.
In the second half, the Semin-ary's
savage defensive play kept
Sem hopes alive. But with two
minutes left to play, Jester defen-sive
end, Bill Madsen, intercepted
a Castiline pass and scurried ten
yards to score. Buck's pass to Gene
Peterson was good for the extra
point.
On the line, the Jester heroes
were Phil Wicklund, Denny Wall
and Madsen who rendered the Sem-inary's
vaunted running game use-less.
Three stellar linebackers —
Tim Williams, who had one pass
interception, Ron Bergman and
Gene Peterson—held quick Semin-ary
passes to short gains. Jim
Austin made a crucial intercep-tion
at safety.
shone forth in the form of Stan Miller,
Stair, the tri-captains, along with Lowell
Selander and Dick Fredrickson. Several of
heads nearly ten years, and the ways of
were not new stuff to them. They had
for they were of that remarkable breed
Lurking atop the speakers table in big Gothic capitals was "Bethel
Royals-1964 Pioneer Conference Champions," and those words spoke
truth. Sitting beneath the banner was President and Mrs. Lundquist, Jim
Johnson, the emcee, Coach and Mrs. Halleen.
Memories were swept past in movie-like fashion as jokes were
told and retold, movies were shown and highlights of the games were
recaptured. The team scripture verse was read, followed by the team
and dates singing "How Great Thou Art." At the conclusion of the
fourth stanza, the mind wandered back to the numerous days the
team had sung those praises journeying home from practice or a
game. They somehow took on a special meaning.
Dr. Lundquist accepted the Pioneer Conference trophy, uttered
reminiscences of past Bethel teams and concluded on his usual opti-mistic
note. The biggest trophy the team wanted to present was not
there—it consisted of a single 8-0 record. Westmar had spoiled that
dream, but next year is another year.
Jim Brand received a trophy for being the outstanding defensive
player. Lowell Gause received two awards, the first for being the
best offensive blocker and the second for being the team's most
aggressive player. Vince Bloom was the team's biggest tapeworm,
and Stan Miller was the team's most valuable player. Ron Harris was
the most improved ball player. The co-captains of next year's squad
are Gene Brunzell and Don Land.
Who could forget "the little guy" and the fantastic job he did
this year. Football camp, practice days and locker room victory parties
are incomplete without Coach Halleen. He was backed by assistants
Dave Cox, Bob Smith, Steve Luckman and Jim Nelson.
A possibility of a nine game season is in prospect for next year,
with the ninth team perhaps being Winona or Stout State. This year
was great, but the carry-over members are determined next year
will be greater. That is the way it should be. Champions never stop
—they keep progressing.
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Under construction is the major backdrop for the Festival of
Christmas concert to be presented Dec. 4-6 in the fieldhouse. The
choral program revolves around the theme "The Word Was Made Flesh"
as portrayed in the backdrop designed by Gene Johnson and the Art
Department.
Vol XL—No. 10 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, December 25, 1964
Senate Committee Explores
Communication with Negroes
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Missionary curios on display attracted the attention of seminar-ians
Bruce Hansen of New York and Varghese Soloman of Kuola, India.
Similar displays in the Student Lounge reminded students that Missions
Week was in progress. Missions Week speakers emphasized that mis-sions
is a "Vocation with a Vision."
Bethel's 8th annual Christmas Festival of Arts
will be held in the fieldhouse, Dec. 4-6. The Dec.
4 and 5 performances will begin at 8 p.m. The
Dec. 6 performance will begin at 3 p.m.
The festival theme will be "The Word was made
flesh . . ." It is divided into three sections.
The first section is "Glorious Creation." A-gainst
the mural backdrop showing the creation,
the choir will sing "The Creation," "Great and
Marvelous are Thy Works" and "Gloria."
"Glorious Incarnation," the second part portrays
the birth of Christ. The feature selections will be
"Glory to God in the Highest," "The Angels Song"
and "Christus Natus Est!" The choir will sing "Pas-toral"
from Handel's "Messiah" during the offering.
Finally there will be the presentation of the
section entitled "Glorious Consummation." Highlight-
Annual Festival Presents
`Word Was Made Flesh'
ing this part will be "The Shepherd Heard an An-gel,"
"Sing, 0 Ye Heavens" and "Glory to God."
After this section is over there will be a recessional
of the choir singing, "Angels We have Heard on
High," a French carol.
The musical part of this festival presentation
is a joint effort of the Women's Choir, the Men's
Choir, the College Choir and a combination of
these three called the Festival Choir. The orches-tra
and a brass choir will play.
The drama department provides the narration of
the theme. This year the narrators are Dale Rott,
Barbara Glenn and Robert Drake.
By a narrow margin the Student
Senate voted to investigate the
possibility of communicating and
exchanging students with a Negro
college. Bill Carlson, first vice-president,
who is in charge of the
investigation will be reporting on
the project to the Senate after
Thanksgiving.
As conceived by Carlson, the
project would begin with corres-pondence
between student govern-ments
about some common prob-lems
of student government. Grow-ing
from this correspondence,
weekend or vacation exchange
visits could be made by student
senators from both schools. Even-tually
the student governments
might sponsor semester student
exchange programs.
"The whole idea is based on the
premise that students at Bethel
have not had much contact with
the racial problem at home and
they do not come in contact with
it here at Bethel where we have
no American Negroes and seem to
Senate Plans
Rules Forum
Senate approved a motion to
hold an open forum on women's
dormitory rules Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
following the regular Senate meet-ing
in room 106 of the college
building.
Bob Beckstrom, president of the
Senate, said, "I cannot over-em-phasize
that the primary function
of the forum is information. Since
the issue of dorm rules has gone
outside the dormitories, the Sen-ate
has stepped in to determine
exactly what the issue is.
"The means of obtaining and
communicating the information
Monday night will be: 1) sympos-ium
and 2) open discussion."
Since the student missions pro-ject
was first initiated, Faith State-ments
of Intent have gradually
totaled slightly less than $11,000
as of Nov. 18. Bethel students have
responded by turning in over 350
and work opportunities. Carleton
currently has 11 such Negroes on
its campus. The student body gives
financial assistance to two, the ad-ministration,
to four and the Rocke-feller
Foundation, to five.
A professor from a Negro girl's
college in Atlanta, Ga. which ex-changes
students with several
Northern schools, told Carlson that
these exchanges have worked well.
Students from both North and
South appear to be benefiting from
this personal contact.
"Eventually, I would like to see
a well qualified Negro professor
at Bethel, but this is a project for
the future. Now we in the Senate
are concerned about a small be-ginning,
specifically, communica-tion
with a Negro college and the
Negro community of the Twin City
area."
Setting the
mural depicting
pledges doubling the first day fig-ures.
Various Bethel organizations and
several classes are also consider-ing
plans such as "slave days" for
furthering this project.
Jim Keim, Religious Committee
co-ordinator estimates a final total
of nearly $15,000. He states, "It's
slow, but encouraging." Funds be-yond
the $3,000 for the summer
student missionary project will be
used for the construction of a Sem-inary
classroom on the new Bethel
campus.
Notices about the summer pro-ject
have been sent to all students.
Those interested in working with
home and foreign missions this
summer are asked to reply immed-iately
so that work may proceed
on the selection of candidates. Ap-plication
forms must be in by Jan.
8. The final selections will be an-nounced
before semester break.
Students unable to attend the
chapel hour are asked to submit
their statements of Intent and of-fering
either through the inter-campus
mail, or the Public Af-fairs
office.
Bethel's football and cross coun-try
teams were honored yesterday
for their outstanding competitive
COEVAL Asks
For Creativity
Deadline for contributions to
COEVAL for the spring, 1965 pub-lication
is Feb. 15. Some of the
categories are prose (short story,
essay), short drama, poetry, sculp-ture,
painting, drawing, design,
photography and music.
For new students on campus,
COEVAL is the student published
and produced art and literature
magazine of Bethel College. Only
original work by Bethel students
is considered. Contributions are
already coming in.
Early entry is advised to allow
a more careful review by staff
members. Submit your work to
Jan Bowman (PO 535), Jim Carroll
(PO 432) or Jud Nelson (Art De-partment).
This year COEVAL is sponsor-ing
supplementary programs in co-operation
with Cultural Council,
such as the "Speak-easys" and a
convocation with the renowned
poet and critic Allen Tate, who
will be at Bethel next April.
Tentative plans for the next
"Speak-easy" include performance
of original student composition in
the areas of music and literature.
atmosphere for this program is a
each section of the theme. The first
part shows the creation of man.
The second part presents Christ's
birth, death and resurrection. The
final portion illustrates Christ's
glory in ascension power. The mur-al
will span the entire length of
the stage. Gene Johnson and the
art classes created the visual pan-orama
of the Festival theme.
Cabin Decision
Set for Monday
Final action on the Captain's
Cabin constitution will take place
at the next Senate meeting. The
Senate's Dec. 7 meeting in the col-lege
auditorium at 7 p.m. is open
to all students.
Last Monday night the Senate
opened discussion on the newly
revised constitution. Dave Mbiti,
chartering committee chairman,
presented the constitution. Then
J. David Patterson was called upon
to answer questions.
Inquiries centered around the
governing body of the Cabin.
Many senators and interested
students took opposing stands on
the issues. A motion to have an
immediate vote on the motion was
turned down 8-10. Senate rules
call for a vote on a motion one
week after it is introduced.
records of the 1964 season in a
special Seminary chapel, planned
by Seminary students.
Seminary Senate President Bruce
Jones welcomed the team mem-bers
and Dean Gordon Johnson
spoke in recognition of their ach-ievements.
Paul Evans, pastor at Forest
City, Iowa, and former Bethel
football player and coach gave the
address, "A Mandate for Men."
Evans challenged the young men
to consider the type of vocation
they are pursuing in the light of
how it will enable them "to best
fulfill the mandate Christ has left
you," that of proclaiming the mes-sage
of Christ. He further empha-sized
as an athlete, the fact that
one has a captive audience wait-ing
to listen to him, stating that
"By nature of what you are, and
what you have accomplished,
young people and adults will give
you their attention."
As a pastor, Evans challenged
each one to consider full-time
Christian service as a means where-by
they may proclaim Christ.
Next CLARION
December 9
It's Thanksgiving
Vacation
be making no appeal to Negroes,"
states Carlson.
"As the recent civil rights con-vocation
series pointed out, the ra-cial
problem is coming to a crisis
and we at Bethel are removed
from personal contact with it. This
project is aimed toward filling the
gap between what Bethel students
know about racial differences and
how they act with people of dif-ferent
races.
"Admittedly, the project may
seem to be biased for the Negro,
but its purpose is to fill an appar-ent
gap in Bethel's education, not
to favor Negroes over others,"
Carlson explained.
He also reports that a look at
similar programs at other colleges
is encouraging. In this vicinity
Macalester and Carleton colleges
have actively encouraged Negro
enrollment through scholarships
Project's Faith Pledges
Total Less Than $11,000
Seminary Challenges
Team; Praises Record
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the CLARION Wednesday, November 25, 1964
Kennedy's Words Recall
Blessings of Heritage
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord."
More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims, after a year
of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a spe-cial
day upon which to give thanks to God for their. preserva-tion
and for the good harvest from the virgin soil upon which
they had labored. Grave and unknown dangers remained.
Yet by their faith and by their toil they had survived the
rigors of the rash New England winter. Hence they paused
iu their labors to give thanks for the blessings that had been
bestowed upon them by Divine Providence.
This year, as the harvest draws near its close and the
year approaches its end, awesome perils again remain to be
faced. Yet we have, as in the past, ample reason to be thank-ful
for the abundance of our blessings. We are grateful for
the blessings of faith and health and strength and for the
imperishable spiritual gifts of love and hope.
We give thanks, too, for our freedom as a nation; for
the strength of our arms and the faith of our friends, for
the beliefs and confidence we share; for our determination
to stand firmly for what we believe to be right and to resist
mightily what we believe to be base; and for the heritage
of liberty bequeathed by our ancestors which we are privi-leged
to preserve for our children and our children's children.
I urge all citizens to make this Thanksgiving not merely
a holiday from their labors, but rather a day of contempla-tion.
I ask the head of each family to recount to his children
the story of the first New England Thanksgiving, thus to
impress upon future generations the heritage of this nation
born in toil, in danger, in purpose, and in the conviction that
right and justice and freedom can through man's efforts
persevere and come to fruition with the blessing of God.
Let us observe this day with reverence and with prayer
that will rekindle in us the will and show us the way not
only to preserve our blessings, but also to extend them to
the four corners of the earth. Let us by our example, as
well as by our material aid, assist all peoples of all nations
who are striving to achieve a better life in freedom.
John F. Kennnedy
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Student Cites Problem Areas
In Ministry to Modern World
by Dave Buck
My intention is not to write a sarcastic, cynical
diatribe against the church, but to present my opin-ion
as to how the church has failed the Christian.
What is wrong with the church depends also on what
the individual himself wants from the church.
Therefore, I expect some to disagree with my
opinion. The church to be considered in this dis-cussion
is the local church in our home towns that
each of us belongs to.
I feel that the church does not really deal
with the individual as a human being apart from
the salvation experience. Here are my particular
grievances against the church.
First, the church's legalistic framework often
imposes guilt feelings on the individual for certain
acts or thoughts that aren't really sin. Closely re-lated
to this criticism is the fact that the church
fails to deal with the practical problems of life. For
example, one of the most critical problems the
adolescent faces is making a satisfactory adjustment
to sex.
The adjustment is even harder for the Chris-tian
young person to make because of the moral
implications involved. Although the church does not
need to bear the whole responsibility of sex educa-tion,
must it treat the subject of sex as if to say
the word itself is sin?
Next, the church often fails to relate poten-tially
useful materials such as literature and movies
to Christianity in a way that would aid the Chris-tian
to gain a deeper understanding of life's mean-ing.
Usually the church has placed a spoken or un-spoken
taboo on these two medias unless they are
so-called Christian ventures. But in order to be
relevant to the contemporary world, the church must
face Salinger, Steinbeck, Faulkner and Sarte realis-tically
rather than immaturely condemning their
thinking because these men happen to use profanity
in their writings.
The church also must not reject movies such as
"La Dolce Vita" or "Days of Wine and Roses" be-cause
they emphasize immorality. The church should
begin to realize that if approached maturely, these
two medias could do much to help the Christian
face life realistically.
Then, does the church really provide any
source of solace for the individual's doubts and
anxieties? The church falsely believes that be-cause
a person is a Christian he will turn to
Christ automatically to solve his problems. They
seem to forget that human's often don't want to.
Even though we are saved, we still like to be
our own God. This causes conflict and leads to neu-rotic
tendencies in many who think they are ex-pected
to live one way and yet cannot seem to
live this way. They wonder why they fail so often
and sometimes they end in a nervous breakdown
or in rebellion against Christianity.
This leads to the final criticism which is that
the church stifles individuality when it indicates that
it is sinful for a Christian to doubt his faith. Thus
the individual faces the conflict of conforming to
something he is not really sure
about or of rejecting it entirely
because his doubts overwhelm him.
The church must encourage the
Christian to think and to be will-ing
to face perplexing problems
squarely instead of suppressing
them because he fears that his
doubts are abnormal. If the church
doesn't begin to do this, there won't
be many Christians who could be
known as the "salt of the earth."
Alas, we will remain phonies.
Multitudes of cliches in our tes-timonies,
prayers and sermons
would seem to indicate that the
modern church is static. It has lost
the early church's dynamic and
has never really been revelant to
modern man's problems. What can
we do to change it, or is it too
late?
To me there is only one way the
situation can be changed. This is
through the individual efforts of
each pastor and each member of
the church to re-evaluate his faith
and, if necessary, revamp it. But
this costs something in self disci-pline.
The big question remains,
"Do we really want to pay this
price?"
Viet Nam .
Top American officials in South
Viet Nam strongly favor a delib-erate
widening of the guerilla war,
starting with U.S. air strikes a-gainst
Communist infiltrating
routes through Laos and military
bases in North Viet Nam.
Thailand .. .
Thailand began taking her first
unsteady steps toward restoration
of parliamentary democracy. The
government has been a military
dictatorship since Marshall Sarit
Thanarat seized power six years
ago. A liberalizing of the govern-ment
has come since his death last
year.
Laos .. .
Another U.S. military plane has
been shot down in Laos, the Pen-tagon
reported. The injured pilot
of the reconnaissance jet shot down
by ground fire in south central
Laos was rescued.
Cuba . . .
Cuban exiles said Saturday they
tried to drop a bomb on Fidel
Castro at a . Havana baseball stad-ium
Friday night in an air raid
staged in memory of John F. Ken-nedy.
Cuban anti-aircraft fire drove
them off long before they reached
the stadium.
Common Market . . .
Trade experts of the European
Common Market have drawn up a
final list of industrial exemptions
for the Kennedy Round of tariff
talks with the United States in
Geneva. The list includes 81% of
its members' industrial imports.
Nato . . .
The North Atlantic Treaty Or-ganization,
fifteen and a half years
old and suffering from growing
pains, may now be failing as a re-sult
of its own success. The fifteen
members of the alliance now seem
to lack an urgent unifying chal-lenge
from the outside. Economic
recovery in Europe has also led to
re-assertions of the ancient prides
and peeves of the continental na-tions.
GOP Showdown
Mr. Dean Burch said that he
would fight back if anyone tries
to oust him as head of the GOP
National Committee. Others, in-cluding
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller,
former ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge and Sen. Jacob K. Javits
made clear they will use any in-fluence
they can to force a change
of leadership.
The Committee of 68 .. .
Former Gov. Elmer L. Andersen
of Minnesota emerged Saturday as
the leading spokesman for a newly
organized group of moderates
known as The Committee of 68
interested in revitalizing the na-tional
Republican party.
Letters to the Editor:
Dear Editor:
I was shocked by the action tak-en
in response to a letter written
in the Nov. 11 CLARION by a Miss
Wells. I had assumed that even on
Bethel's campus the basic rights
of freedom of the press and free-dom
of speech would be upheld.
Yet after this girl had enough
courage to speak out in a mature-ly,
logically written letter, she was
immediately quieted and insulted.
First let me say a few words
about the reactionary letters an-swering
Miss Wells. Miss Thomp-son
said she would "welcome con-structive
criticism, not rebellion."
Miss Wells made a point of being
polite and of offering an alternate
system. Miss Thompson also said,
"real maturity is demonstrated by
the ability to follow set rules."
This is hogwash.
Maturity includes the qualities
of making slow, careful deci-sions
and taking responsible ac-tion.
What choice is left to a
person who has all the rules set
up for him? Maturity is demon-strated
by the ability to make
the right choices, not to just
follow set rules.
Miss Nelson, after insulting
those who had written letters, sug-gested
"that all the residents of
all the dormitories make their
Christian witness on campus a mat-ter
of prayerful concern." Fine.
But, am I staying quietly in my
room after 11 because of my
Christian witness or because of
the rules? Do I get a chance to
show my Christianity?
When I have a choice concerning
action I could take, then I can be
a witness. If there are no alterna-tives,
I'm not building Christian
character for life, I'm repressing
my urges for a few years of col-lege
life.
Though I have tried to show
the fallacies in the reactions a-gainst
Miss Wells' letter, I do
not make this my main point.
Maturity
Be she right or wrong, is Miss
Wells justified in writing a let-ter
to the editor or not?
Should she be insulted, called
before Miss Nelson and have a
letter sent home to her parents
because she wrote a letter to the
editor? Not a rebellious, imma-ture
letter, but (re-read it please)
a reasonable, constructive plea for
a reconsideration of the rules. If
this is rebellion, then I'm for it.
Sincerely,
Michael Allen Rynkiewich
Defends Cabin
Dear Editor:
Much has been written as well
as spoken about the Captain's
Cabin—the need, the purposes, the
organization, the appeal and the
ultimate result. It is not my pur-pose
to debate any of the latter,
except the first and the last, need
cont'd. on page 3
Tita Itiee4 . .
Wednesday, November 25
Last day to drop a course.
Thanksgiving vacation begins. 5 p.m.
Wednesday - Sunday,
November 25 -29
Thanksgiving vacation.
Saturday, November 24
Basketball, LaCrosse. Fieldhouse. 8
Monday, November 30
Classes resume. 8 a.m.
Schubert club. St. Paul aud. 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 1
Basketball. Luther. Fieldhouse. 8 p.m.
Friday - Saturday, December 4 -5
Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse.• 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 6
Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse. 3 p.m.
Monday, December 7
Senate. College aud. 7 p.m.
Tuesday, December 8
Senate forum. College aud. 9 p.m.
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Rynkiewich Redefines
Vern Lewis
Dave Mbiti
Bill Carlson
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The introduction of the Cap-tain's
Cabin constitution at the
Senate meeting Monday night call-ed
forth a variety of response
from the Senate members.
Dave Mbiti, representative at
large, introduced the constitution
to the Senate. He feels that the
constitution is still plagued with
ambiguity. "Too many doubts are
raised regarding such terms as
`social identification,' membership
rates' and `fees'." In spite of these
problems, he feels that the idea
behind Captain's Cabin is sound
and deserves consideration.
Commenting on the debate
during the Senate meeting,
Mbiti stated that "the Senate,
though, is not attacking the am-biguities
of the constitution but
is concerning itself with per-sonality
clashes. Captain's Cabin
should be judged on the basis
of its stated objectives."
Vern Lewis, member at large,
stated that he is not firmly oppos-ed
to the club and has not yet
made up his mind on the matter.
Those in the Senate opposed to
Captain's Cabin are primarily op-posed
because of the conflict be-by
Stan Olsen
Last night Northrop Auditorium
was the scene of the last Minne-sota
performance by America's
most beloved singer, Marian An-derson.
Including Minneapolis in
her world farewell tour, Miss An-derson
presented works by Haydn
and Schubert, plus many Negro
spirituals for which she is espec-ially
well known.
This column is happy to offer
its thanks and congratulations to
Miss Anderson for her contribution
to music.
Leading Metropolitan opera bass
Jerome Hines will present a spe-cial
concert Saturday, Dec. 5 at
8:30 p.m. in Northrop Auditorium.
The concert, which is being pre-sented
by the University Artists
Course, is a benefit for the Coun-cil
of Religious Advisors at the
University of Minnesota. Tickets
are still available at 105 Northrop
Auditorium, Daytons and Field-
Schlicks.
Bethel's Fine Arts Department
will combine to stage the eighth
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tween the traditional stand of
Bethel and what they feel could
be a compromise, a step in another
direction. This feeling has been
stimulated mainly by rumors con-cerning
the type of entertainment
and the ambiguous constitution
does nothing to alleviate their
fears."
Referring to the apparent con-flict
of standards, Lewis com-mented
that "the second and
third paragsaphs of page 27 of
the Bethel catalogue infers that
there is to be no social separa-tion
on our campus. The pre-amble
to the constitution of Cap-tain's
Cabin states, 'We, a group
of students of Bethel College,
realizing the need for social
identification, do establish this
organization,' thus introducing a
new social concept."
Bill Carlson, first vice president,
stated that "we ought to look at
the value of the club over and a-bove
the impression that was giv-en
in the CLARION article. The
Cabin will provide a much needed
social activity on the campus."
Carlson expressed several sug-gestions
for improvement of the
constitution, commenting that it
annual Festival of Christmas in
the Fieldhouse, Dec. 4-6. The scrip-tural
theme is "The word was
made flesh . . ." A large mural
depicting each section of the theme
Creation, Incarnation and Con-summation
will form the backdrop
for musical and oral communica-tion.
Bethel students should certainly
be aware of the second year per-formance
of the Center Opera
Company. This season the company
will present two operas, the first
being Benjamin Britten's satire on
the fall of Rome, "The Rape of
Lucretcia" Nov. 28, 29 and Dec. 5
and 6. The Tyrone Guthrie Theatre
will host the Center Company in
its second production during mid-
January.
Season tickets are now at sale
at the Guthrie ticket office at spe-cial
student rates of three dollars
with student activity cards.
"can and should provide for a
check against irregularities," by
"outlining the responsibilities and
duties of members and officers."
cont'd. from page 2
and result. Last year's students
vividly remember the dress-up din-ners
and the evident lack by those
responsible for the dinners and
several of the students in attend-ance.
The originators of the Captain's
Cabin have seen the need for a
step to correct the sorry situation
surrounding dress-up dinners. They
realized the Social Committee has
only a limited budget, especially
for dress-up dinners and that all
students on the meal plan do not
enjoy going to the trouble of put-ting
on their better clothes and
better manners on occasional Fri-day
nights.
The originators have come
up with two very promising
innovations, (1) making a nominal
charge for reservations to secure
not only an enchanting mood but
also some appropriate entertain-ment,
(2) appealling only to those
students who desire to dine in a
more esthetic atmosphere and be
entertained as well.
Whatever the fate of the Cabin's
charter its answers to the "Friday
night problem" will stand unique.
Thoughtfully,
Mike Peterson
Urges Reform
Dear Editor:
Improvement is initiated by con-structively
stated opinions and
criticisms. To move forward, the
members of any society should be
encouraged to state responsible
and factual opinions, rather than
admonished for expressing views
contrary to the status quo.
Even if the dissenting opinions
are not accurate, a democratic so-ciety
encourages concise rebuttal
to present differing facts and
Wednesday, November 25, 1964
College students are a rather
diverse group. Some of us get our
kicks by watching the home team
roll over Fink College. A few of
us like to balance chemical equa-tions
in the lab. All of us are in-terested
in the chemistry behind
someone's big blue eyes.
A new expression of unity has
been formed this fall on Bethel's
campus to draw together the prob-lems
of diversity. The axiological
pre-supposition of the new Philo-sophy
Club is that the discovery of
truth is functually related to the
geographical proximity of the
seekers.
An a priori assumption bor-rowed
from the Social Sciences
is the need for an orthodox con-view
points. In this manner we
need not fear irresponsible opin-ions.
The freedom to initiate programs
exists on Bethel's campus. The
freedom to attempt to reform ex-isting
policies and rules apparent-ly
does not exist. For example, in
the recent attempt to reform in-consistent
or unnecessarily re-strictive
rules in Bodien Dorm,
several of the dissenters were call-ed
in "on the carpet" by the Stu-dent
Affairs office.
In some cases such talks are for
the purpose of better student-ad-ministration
understanding on a
friendly basis. This is good. But
some talks have been for the un-fair
purpose of reprisal concerning
dissenting opinions.
Criticisms concerning rules
should not be taken personally and
should be accepted for what they
are worth. As long as students
cannot creatively disagree with
school policies or rules at Bethel,
improvements will be slow in com-ing.
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stitution. If viewed from a philo-sophical
frame of reference, its
only justification is in its at-tempt
to prove the validity of
the concept of "reality of exist-ence"
which the members have
finally achieved.
Article II of the constitution de-fines
purposes as: 1) to achieve
freedom of philosophical thought
in the pursuit of truth, and 2) to,
critically relate philosophy to
Christianity.
The last meeting attempt-ed
to analyze the meaning of
good and evil in human exist-ence,
from both a Biblical and
Naturalistic view point. A paper
written by Dave Mbiti served as
the catalyst of the discussion.
All the meetings are held on an
informal level often beginning
with the presentation of a paper
by a member of the group, fol-lowed
by debate and discussion of
the form and content of the article,
Meeting time varies according to
scheduled events.
The club lacks the presence of
serious minded Bethel girls and
also science majors. Science maj-ors
(especially physics), who en,
joy stimulating discussions would
have much to offer the group. All
interested students, regardless of
sex and major, are invited to at-tend.
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somehow instilled in the athletes.
Bethel gridders begin a nine month time out at the annual football
banquet held last Friday night. The 1964 Pioneer Conference champions
and their dates huddled at the Captain's Cove to reminisce and lay
first plans for another winning season.
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keep improving, the crowd will
have a real winning team to cheer
this year," stated the former MIAC
wrestling champ.
The wrestlers grapple on, work-ing
for that first big meet with
Macalester. It is hot in the wrest-ling
room. Coach Gilland wiped
his forehead and proclaimed, "This
could be our big year."
The Davids of the Jesters felled
the Goliaths of the Seminary 14-0
in seven degree weather Saturday.
In a game of stout defenses, the
Jesters proved so superior that the
Seminary never penetrated beyond
their own forty yard line.
The Jester's first score came
midway in the first half when,
Dave Buck intercepted a Bob
Clouse pass and romped thirty
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Face 'Big Year' with Large Team
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Women Capture
Second Place
Bethel captured second place in
a seven school women's volleyball
tournament at Augsburg College
in Minneapolis last Thursday night.
The team, consisting of Barb Lind-man,
Ruth Phillips, Cindy Heath,
Jan Markell, Betty Cass, Betty Jo
Hanlin, Muriel Carlson and Cheryl
Alen, opened the six game tourna-ment
against St. Paul Bible Col-lege
and defeated them 15-3.
The second game, against North-western,
was also won by a score
of 15-3. The only loss of the even-ing
came after a well played game
against Augsburg which took first
place in the tournament. Bad serv-ing
in the early part of the game
led to the defeat by a score of 15-9.
Bethel's victory margin was nar-rowed
in a 15-11 win over St.
Catherine's. In the fifth game
Bethel rebounded to roll over Fair-view
Hospital 15-5.
Excitement reached its peak in
the final game of the evening as
the score shifted from Concordia's
to Bethel's favor. Bethel came from
behind in the last few minutes in
their best effort of the evening
to win by a score of 18-16.
Huddling beneath the gymnas-ium,
in a 90 degree over-heated
room, is the Bethel wrestling team.
They wring with sweat, losing
pounds in order to make weight
for the first meet on Dec. 2 at
Macalester.
Dean Gilland, taking time out
from his busy schedule, talked at
length concerning the team's
depth, returning lettermen and
season schedule. Coach Gilland, of
course, would like nothing better
than to defeat his old alma-mater,
Macalester. "We'll get our first
chance on Dec. 2, and we should
Wednesday, November 25, 1964
be ready," claimed the stocky
coach.
Among the returnees this year
are Doug King and Ron Harris,
the team co-captains, Leroy Nel-son,
J. David Patterson and Keith
Davis. A hearty list of 15 freshm-men,
plus several new upperclass-men,
have turned out for the team
and Coach Gilland has stated his
approval. "This is a large crop
of men and we expect to use
them."
Large crowds were present at
last year's meets, verbally shout-ing
their approval. "If our fellows
The finished product
Duane Gibson and Larry
Gause, Vince Bloom, Gene
these had been knocking
modern grid-iron warfare
championed many teams,
'hat make champions.
yards for the touchdown. Buck
passed to Tim Williams for the
extra point.
In the second half, the Semin-ary's
savage defensive play kept
Sem hopes alive. But with two
minutes left to play, Jester defen-sive
end, Bill Madsen, intercepted
a Castiline pass and scurried ten
yards to score. Buck's pass to Gene
Peterson was good for the extra
point.
On the line, the Jester heroes
were Phil Wicklund, Denny Wall
and Madsen who rendered the Sem-inary's
vaunted running game use-less.
Three stellar linebackers —
Tim Williams, who had one pass
interception, Ron Bergman and
Gene Peterson—held quick Semin-ary
passes to short gains. Jim
Austin made a crucial intercep-tion
at safety.
shone forth in the form of Stan Miller,
Stair, the tri-captains, along with Lowell
Selander and Dick Fredrickson. Several of
heads nearly ten years, and the ways of
were not new stuff to them. They had
for they were of that remarkable breed
Lurking atop the speakers table in big Gothic capitals was "Bethel
Royals-1964 Pioneer Conference Champions," and those words spoke
truth. Sitting beneath the banner was President and Mrs. Lundquist, Jim
Johnson, the emcee, Coach and Mrs. Halleen.
Memories were swept past in movie-like fashion as jokes were
told and retold, movies were shown and highlights of the games were
recaptured. The team scripture verse was read, followed by the team
and dates singing "How Great Thou Art." At the conclusion of the
fourth stanza, the mind wandered back to the numerous days the
team had sung those praises journeying home from practice or a
game. They somehow took on a special meaning.
Dr. Lundquist accepted the Pioneer Conference trophy, uttered
reminiscences of past Bethel teams and concluded on his usual opti-mistic
note. The biggest trophy the team wanted to present was not
there—it consisted of a single 8-0 record. Westmar had spoiled that
dream, but next year is another year.
Jim Brand received a trophy for being the outstanding defensive
player. Lowell Gause received two awards, the first for being the
best offensive blocker and the second for being the team's most
aggressive player. Vince Bloom was the team's biggest tapeworm,
and Stan Miller was the team's most valuable player. Ron Harris was
the most improved ball player. The co-captains of next year's squad
are Gene Brunzell and Don Land.
Who could forget "the little guy" and the fantastic job he did
this year. Football camp, practice days and locker room victory parties
are incomplete without Coach Halleen. He was backed by assistants
Dave Cox, Bob Smith, Steve Luckman and Jim Nelson.
A possibility of a nine game season is in prospect for next year,
with the ninth team perhaps being Winona or Stout State. This year
was great, but the carry-over members are determined next year
will be greater. That is the way it should be. Champions never stop
—they keep progressing.
Jesters Overcome Seminary 14-0